When enough is enough, Israel must go on offensive

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With its assassination this week of Hamas leader Ahmed Jabari and the launch of Operation Pillar of Defense, Israel has rid the world of a monster and significantly degraded the terror infrastructure in Gaza. But it must now brace for fierce, bloody retaliation.

This is a fight Hamas has brought on itself. Though it barely made the news in our corner of the world, Israel had been under dramatically increased missile fire in recent weeks. More than 150 Hamas rockets exploded inside Israel in the five days prior to the Israel Defense Forces operation.

Since the start of the year, Hamas has rained down more than 800 rockets on civilians — 12,000 in the last 12 years.

As in the months leading up to the launch of Operation Cast Lead in late 2008, the situation had grown intolerable. Israel had no choice but to respond.

Jabari was a senior leader of Hamas’ militant wing, the man responsible for the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, the man who bragged that his militants collectively murdered 569 Israeli civilians.

According to reports from the Jerusalem Post, IDF strikes also took out 20 missile launchers capable of sending rockets to Tel Aviv. A spokesman told that newspaper that the IDF eliminated “the majority of the long-range threat.”

Nevertheless, as predictable as the tides, global condemnation of Israeli aggression is sure to follow.

Israel must not be deterred. If the threat of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other Gaza-based terror groups can be reduced or eliminated, then Israel must act.

Though this outbreak is grabbing most of the headlines, we also note the spike in military incidents along the Syrian border, including errant missiles landing in the Golan Heights.

The Syrian civil war has been spiraling out of control for months, bringing chaos much too close to this normally quiet Israeli border. This, too, cannot go on.

And then there is the vote in the United Nations General Assembly later this month on whether to recognize Palestinian statehood. The proposal will likely pass, throwing a major wrench into the peace process.

How Israel responds to this end-run around bilateral negotiations is anyone’s guess, but it likely won’t be warm and fuzzy.

Israelis know they live in one of the world’s toughest neighborhoods. Going to war is a last resort, but unfortunately Israel too often finds itself facing that stark choice.

The world is a better place without Jabari. The launchers had to be destroyed. Israel did the right thing, and we stand solidly together at this time.

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Posted by Frank
11/17/2012 at 04:05 AM

Prepare for the lefty attacks

Not only will the words “Muslim Terrorists” never be heard, but the lefty media, such as the NY Times, LA Times, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Reuters, AP, BBC, and of course the SF Chronicle, and all the other Jew-haters, will be propagandizing with staged photos and videos of “palestinian” “civilian” “victims”.

Its already begun, with comparisons of the number of dead, wailing about the previous war with Hamas in Gaza, and “reporters” creating moral equivalence between Muslim Terrorists and their Jewish victims.

Now that Obama has allowed the Terrorist Muslim Brotherhood to take control of Egypt, which supports its offshoot, terrorist Hamas, the situation is infinitely worse.

But the overwhelming existential danger remains Iran’s nukes, and Obama’s using this as political cover for allowing Iran its nukes. Terrorist missiles are not an existential danger. Iranian nuclear weapons are, and yet appallingly, most American Jews voted for the man who will sell Israel down the river.

The great majority of us do stand together with Israel. Jewish Voice for Peace, on the other hand, co-sponsored a hate rally last night in SF that featured the usual “intifada, intifada” and “from the river to the sea” chants, andchants that justified Hamas rockets as “resistance to occupation”. Check out some of the blatant anti-Semitism here: http://youtu.be/DStbmW7zJO8.

JVP of course had been silent about rocket attacks aimed at Israeli civilians.

Enough is enough! Obama is already pressuring Israel not to protect its citizens

When it comes to Obama, enough is enough!

It didn’t take long for Obama’s to express his enmity toward Israel by trying to prevent her from taking the necessary military action to save its citizens from the muslim Terrorist siege, as thousands of Terrorist rockets rain down on Tel Aviv and Jerusalem:

“Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman conferred urgently Sunday night, Nov. 18 – Day 5 of the Gaza offensive – on how to respond to US President Barack Obama’s insistent demand that they delay a major IDF ground operation in the Gaza Strip.
debkafile’s sources disclose that when Obama spoke to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi Friday, Nov. 16 - after receiving an update from Netanyahu - he gave him a 48-hour window for talking Hamas around to a ceasefire.

Not only has the Egyptian president failed in this task, his bid made matters worse: Hamas understood the US president was leaning hard on Israel to refrain from sending troops into the Gaza Strip and took advantage of the respite to redouble its missile barrage on a dozen Israeli locations in the last three days, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.”

Anti-Israel/pro-“palestinian” CNN is already airing long accusatory, dramatically narrated tear-jerking video featuring alleged dead palestinian babies, it claims were killed by the IDF. (The CNN narrator presents the “innocent” parents, of course without any explanation of why they were keeping their alleged children at a terrorist missile launching site. The alleged “mother” can only be seen through a one-inch slit in her black burka, and the entire video is directed by the CNN “correspondent”.)

The leftist anti-Israel propagandists are complicit in the muslim Terrorists’ war on Israel and are, as usual, engaged in their media war against Israel.

We can expect to see a lot of these vile lefty propaganda attacks on Israel, meant to demonize Israel and sympathize with the Hamas terrorists, in the coming days.

CNN’s propaganda antisemitic extravaganza blaming Israel for dead “palestinian” children turned out to be caused by HAMAS ROCKETS!

How embarrassing for CNN! CNN was trying to demonize Israel for killing the Hamas’ terrorists’ children, but the truth was that Hamas rockets killed them.
AND that is the point:

When “palestinians” intentionally fire rockets from hospitals, from schools and from the roofs of apartment buildings, “palestinians are intentionally killing their own children, for the express purpose of using them as propaganda props.

These “palestinian” savages, these barbarians, these vile terrorists, raise their children to murder Jews and blow themselves up as “martyrs” in order to murder Jews. And their parents murder their own children for terrorist propaganda.

And CNN is intentionally complicit.

CNN is a terrorist-supporting antisemitic organization, as are all the leftist media that supports and conspire and cooperates with the terrorists to encourage the terrorists to kill their own children and demonize the Jewish State of Israel.

Luckily, not many people watch CNN, esp. Morgan or Cooper. Only MSNBC has lower ratings.

Last night Morgan held a round table discussion about Hamas, in which a contributor—identified as someone who “knows” Hamas well and often deals with them directly—characterized Hamas leaders, not as thugs, but as well-educated and enlightened. No mention was made, of course, of how in 2006, after Hamas won the election in Gaza, it threw opposing Palestinian Authority members off roofs and executed them in front of their families. No mention was made of how
Hamas deals with anyone who dares dissent, namely, Hamas “disappears” them.

When he interviewed Netanyahu, Morgan was downright uncivil to him, barely able to constrain his hate.

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Hilary Clinton mediating a cease fire can only bode ill for Israel:

One, Hamas has never honored any cease fire ever, and instead has used them only to regroup and rearm.

Two, Clinton is likely to try to extract concessions from Israel, such ending the blockade of Gaza and targeted assassinations. This would in effect reward Hamas for its terrorism and rocket attacks.

The standard pressure applied against Israel by US administrations unfriendly to Israel—one already applied in the past by Obama—is to threaten to diminish or eliminate entirely military parts and supplies, esp. for Israel’s military jets.

And let’s not forget that Obama’s misguided Middle East policies directly contributed to this current crisis, to Hamas escalating its rocket attacks. It was Obama undercutting Mubarak and Qaddafi which led to sharply increased smuggling of rockets from Egypt and Libya into Gaza.

Odd, how the aggressor in the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Arab, ALWAYS makes himself appear to be the victim, with the willing compliance of the world press and world opinion.